Impact resistance of bacteria entrapped in small meteorites

Bulletin de la Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-17

  Roten, Claude Alain Henri ^a   Gallusser, Alain ^b   Borruat, Gabriel Damien ^a   Udry, Stéphane Dominique ^c   Karamata, Dimitri ^a  

^a Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Microbiennes Universite de Lausanne   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Ballistics; Earth; Impact; Interplanetary transfer; Lithopanspermia; Mars; Meteorite; Pansper mia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; EXOBIOLOGY; IMPACT; METEORITE;

EID: 0032468148     PISSN: 00379603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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